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...crush the separatist rebels of the Free Aceh Movement (also known by its Indonesian acronym G.A.M.). Bloody clashes are an almost daily occurrence, with security forces claiming to have killed 24 rebels in a single week in early June. Also unchanged is the steady stream of reports of mysterious civilian killings like Ishak's. Human-rights workers blame both sides for such deaths, although as one activist in Aceh puts it, if "their atrocities are on par in terms of quality, the military wins in terms of quantity...
...predicted was not to be. After a vicious initial round of fighting that left hundreds dead, the conflict settled down into a bloody stalemate: the security forces saturated the countryside, hoping to drive G.A.M. out of hiding and into the mountains, and conducted a brutal campaign against the separatists' civilian supporters. According to New York City-based Human Rights Watch, the military has killed hundreds of ordinary Acehnese?a charge the government denies. "If anyone is shot, it's because he is G.A.M.," says Colonel Ditya Sudarsono, spokesman for the martial-law administrator in Aceh. The military itself boasts that...
...only 10% of their own casualties, which would mean that the two sides have suffered similar losses. As evidence of G.A.M.'s resilience, Davies and others note that none of its senior officials have been captured and that the rebels are still receiving fresh clothes, money and arms from civilian supporters. That point was vividly illustrated recently, when G.A.M. released several hostages it had been holding; media coverage of the handover showed guerrillas who were well fed, clothed and armed, many of them carrying expensive satellite phones...
...year-old civil war, which has claimed more than 150,000 lives and is, the U.N. said recently, "the biggest humanitarian catastrophe in the western hemisphere." Legislation pending in the Colombian Congress, which the AUC rejects, calls for paramilitary members to be prosecuted in Colombia for the civilian massacres they've committed. But U.S. officials also urge the government of President Alvaro Uribe not to ink any agreement that exempts paramilitary leaders from extradition to the U.S. for drug trafficking. Unless the AUC's narcobosses are put behind bars, U.S. officials insist, the paramilitary fighters will become...
...letter to The Crimson in September 1955, Dupuy expressed satisfaction with the “substantial progress” made, contending that the goal of bringing about “a closer integration of the civilian and military subjects” was “the fundamental aspect of the Harvard proposal...